It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
BEAR GRYLLSI joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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My favorite moments? Where it’s all going swimmingly, the sun’s out and I’ve got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
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I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
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Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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